I'm pleased to call attention to the long life of my "Sticks and Stones" poster, originally created in the 70's and still in wide circulation. It is included in the Journal of Public Health Policy Volume 29, #3 2008
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Detail from "Sounds of the City," a floor cloth, (stencil design on canvas), created for Thelma in Brooklyn, NY. I'm experimenting with abstract shapes as narrative elements in paintings and illustrations.
Working on picture-stories about seasons and stars and children and animals.
Haydn London Trio #1, Boccherini Sonata for two cellos and music for eight cellos have preoccupied me for the last few weeks. The music is entering my images. Examples to follow.
click on the image to enlarge it. May is Open Studio time in Newton. I am hard at work on images for publications and so I invite you to visit my studio "virtually." Please feel free to browse my on-line artist's journal entries to see some of my current work. And contact me through my website, (www.ellyrubin.com), if you'd like to see more watercolors, woodcuts or artist's books. I'll be delighted if you also check the other features of this blog which I update periodically.
An exhibition of handmade books which interpret the theme "Shelter" will be on view April 10-22 '08. This exhibit will include a book I made using a Braille printing plate as the cover. This book contains within its hinged metal cover, an immigration document for Joseph Leonard, my uncle who was blind. Joseph Leonard was a pianist and composer. He was provided "shelter" in the U.S.A by his brother, Alfred Leonard, and by well known musicians who vouched for him as a skilled performer. This combined support helped him to escape Nazi Germany and to immigrate to America in 1937. Below is a image of the book that will be on exhibit at the Yamawaki Art and Cultural Center, Lasell College, Newton, MA. The official exhibition Opening will be held 4-7PM April 10, 2008.
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In this post I am highlighting my art work on the cover of "A Sea of Voices," a collection of poems by women poets in Israel. This book was edited by Marjorie Agosin and will be available as of summer 2008. Below is a picture of this book which is to be published by Sherman Asher, Sante Fe, New Mexico.
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I've chosen this calligraphic drawing of a woman to represent my current work in progress.
This image together with two other November '07 posts and new photo albums, will collectively give you a feeling for my on-going interest in narrative art. Comments are welcome. Click to enlarge this and all images.
Years ago I met the Venezuelan artist GEGO (Gertrud Goldschmidt, 1912-1994). This year I saw the retrospective of her work at the Drawing Center in New York. I've grown to love the works on paper and the sculptures of this woman who draws with wire and whose work can be both monumental and intimate in scale. Here are a few recent works of mine inspired by GEGO's "Lamina" series. (click image to enlarge)
